![]() From these first settlers it was wrested, as we are told, by a body of Ionian colonists from Colophon, who had fled from their native city to avoid the dominion of the Lydians. A legend found in the Etymologicon, according to which the city derived its name from a daughter of Morges, king of the Siculi, evidently points in the same direction, as the Morgetes also were an Oenotrian tribe. Whatever may have been the origin of this legend, there seems no doubt that Siris was originally a city of the Chones, the native Oenotrian inhabitants of this part of Italy. ![]() Its first origin was generally ascribed to a Trojan colony and, as a proof of this, an ancient statue of Minerva was shown there which claimed to be the true Trojan Palladium. Siris was a Greek colony which at one time attained to a great amount of wealth and prosperity however, its history is extremely obscure and uncertain. Siris ( Greek: Σῖρις) was an ancient city of Magna Graecia (in modern southern Italy), situated at the mouth of the river of the same name flowing into the Tarentine gulf, and now called the Sinni. ![]()
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